Monday, May 27, 2013

I so want a few 1000 of these: Mobile Robotic Laboratory from MBARI

Thanks to Michael Ferrari for pointing me to this:: Mobile Robotic Laboratory Will Track Ocean Toxins - Popular Mechanics. The article discusses some developments at MBARI for mobile sensor / sampler devices that could be used for various marine microbiology studies. A few years ago I got a tour of MBARI from Alex Worden (see pics below) and got to see some of their toys but many of the developments in this article are new to me. I can't wait until it is possible to deploy a few hundred thousand of these and get massive amounts of data ...